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Friday, June 13, 2014

The End of the Manosphere?

I think Bodycrimes called it last week when she announced that "the manosphere is cooked." Certainly, the manosphere is becoming a sadder and much more self-pitying place based on my random forays into it recently. It's been one calamity after another.

First, Dean Esmay used a rare opportunity for mainstream media exposure of Men's Rights issues to complain about his missing tooth. Then A Voice for Men announced that the First Annual (International) Conference on Men's Issues had been moved from the downtown Detroit Doubletree Inn to a suburban VFW Hall where they will be less "threatened" by feminist protestors, but will now have to fight the bingo crowd for tables. Matt Forney is off to the Philippines next month. Ever the hustler, he also announced he will be available for online "consultations" (at $60/hour) while he basks on the beach. (Nice work if you can get it.) Naughty Nomad was doxed by a "vindictive stalker" who had taken a leaf out of the Matt Forney playbook by using facial recognition software and Facebook to reveal the Nomad's identity (like anyone cares). And poor old Roosh (has everyone forgotten about him?) is languishing in a cheap furnished flat in Siberia, where he assures us in a Youtube dispatch there are girls in Siberia, too -- but then pretty much convinces us that he couldn't care less. And so it seems to be ending: not with a bang, but a hundred whimpers.

Meanwhile, men who are credible masculine role models are stepping forth and publicly denouncing misogyny, not only because it's bad for women, but because it's so damaging to the angry young guys who get caught up in it. Comedians are starting to have their way with "dude bro culture." And the New Misogynists themselves are quickly going from total obscurity to being a joke that even your Fox-watching grandma can laugh at.

The FeMRAs are a different pathological strain. They seem to be just stumbling into this nuttiness, lonely ladies who are underemployed, angry, and full of delusions of grandeur. All the recipes studding those racist, homophobic rants makes me wonder if they wouldn't rather be blogging about cupcakes... but cupcakes doesn't garner you a legion of male fans, does it?

Sometimes I wonder if a lot of the FeMRAs are using the Manosphere to work through the pain of growing up in dysfunctional families...specifically ones headed by crappy mothers. Erin Pizzey's and Judgybitch's anger toward their mothers is well documented...I wonder if "feminists" are simply straw females on whom the FeMRAs can project the hatred they feel towards the women that gave birth to them.

Re/ FeMRAs projecting their anger w/their mothers on all women... That seems quite possible. I'll admit I haven't followed many of the FeMRA blogs. The little I have read confirms my notion that when women "go bad," they can readily outdo men in their hatefulness. The false piety that often cloaks their rage is especially unnerving. At least the men generally own their anger, while the FeMRAs slather their venom with "feminine" appeals to Christian morality and "concern" for the sluts, fatties, and "frivorcees." Also all those ugly food pictures make me queasy.

Re/ the Dark Enlightenment, I'm just too old to get it. I am so old that I had already graduated from college by the time kids were getting lost in sewers playing "Dungeons & Dragons." So I wasn't weaned on that alternative "fantasy" world that seems to have shaped the worldviews of this generation. As far as I know, the Dark Ages were a horrible time: violent, plague-ridden, terrifying. It is inexplicable why anyone over the age of twelve would romanticize it.

Interestingly enough, I recall Machiavelli writing, in The Prince, that piety was the most important virtue for a ruler to feign. Maybe they're all taking a leaf from his book.

As for the Dark Enlightenment, that's always struck me as sounding very black metal. Given its name, it's the sort of movement you expect to be full of Satanists, rather than the fundamentalist Christians that seem to comprise the majority of its members (for added irony, they refer to their enemies collectively as "the Cathedral"). I often have these silly visions of the triumph they all long for being heralded by a day of literal darkness, in which hordes of sinister figures dressed in black hooded robes go forth to burn down museums, libraries and schools, as well as round up "heretics" to burn as well (actually, most of that's probably not too far off what they fantasize about themselves).

Siberia is a friendly place, but not a fun one. I wonder how Roosh's Russian dreams are stacking up against the reality. I hope he enjoys the flies. He seems to be descending into paranoia, if his latest rant on Return of Kings is any guide.

But it was always going to end thus. The difference between a real movement (of any kind) and a hate movement is that the first is based on ideals and the second on self pity. That's how you can tell that 'A Voice For Men' is a hate group.

It would be nice to think so, but for every burned out misogynist commentator who gives up the ghost, there will sadly be a crowd of disillusioned men ready to take up the reins of blaming women for all their misfortunes.

I have no doubt you're right about that, Snork, but they're going to have to acknowledge they're not going to go "mainstream" any time soon. Unless they're completely delusional... but wait a minute....

This is somewhat OT but I might need some advice...it appears that Aaron Clarey, AKA Captain Capitalism, has issued a veiled threat of violence against a woman on his blog. Apparently he called the Dave Ramsey show to see if he could purchase some advertising for his website/books and was denied by a female advertising rep named "Grace"- and extremely angry about it. This is the closing paragraph to his blog post:"I'm just plain done dealing with the "Grace's" in this world and am going to be pointed them out and highlighting them henceforth in the vain hopes of improving the future for our children by removing the "Graces" from our world."

What does he mean? Does he want to do what Matt Forney had done and try and use Google to libel her/ destroy her reputation? Or Dox her? Or does he hope to incite someone to do something more sinister? Or is he thinking of something more extreme? Should Grace be warned that Clarey seems to planning a vendetta against her? I don't know.